Caramel Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes

I have my days living in southern california, 90% of the time I feel so blessed and lucky to have the surroundings I do but then some days, like when I think about it has only rained like twice in the last year ( and that is no exaggeration) I get sad we don’t have seasons. I have always wanted to watch “the leaves change” in fact, one year I specifically booked my NYC trip around it, and did we see leaves change? The few days before we go there they were having record heat and then when we got there it dropped to snow!! Where did fall go? I missed it some how. Guess I’ll have to plan another trip and try to catch it!! So for now I will just bask in the scorching hot sun!! OR stay inside with the AC on 😉

One of my favorite cakes ever is Coffee Cake, and not the American breakfast coffee cake, the English actual cake, no crumble, coffee flavored cake and coffee flavored frosting… cake.

When I was in Australia a few weeks ago we made my Nan’s delicious coffee cake. I devoured it. Literally, I finished the cake off. Oops. Anyways, I got to thinking about how great the coffee flavored frosting was and wondered why I don’t use coffee flavored frosting more often. So I did. With chocolate cake, and added some salted caramel for good measure. I mean what doesn’t become better with salted caramel. If you’re wondering, the answer is nothing. Salted caramel makes everything better. I took these into work and they were gone in no time. In fact I went to have one (I already had one earlier) and there were none left. Imagine my disappointment!!

I almost felt badly about your lack of seasons and then I remember that when Atlanta was shut down for a week because of ice it was probably 70 degrees and sunny! 😉 Anywho…these cupcakes will fix any sadness in a jiffy!! They look amazing! And that drizzle…oh help me!Lindsey @ American Heritage Cooking recently posted…German Chocolate Cupcakes with German Chocolate Ganache Filling

That coffee frosting sounds heavenly! As do the cupcakes but I really want the frosting! haha : ) The fall is my favorite time here on the east coast – you’ll have to plan a trip to get to be here during it at some point!!Ashley recently posted…Strawberry Quinoa Balsamic Salad